Granny Cams - Keeping an Eye on Caregivers and Domestic Help

I think everyone has heard of nanny cams. They are small hidden cameras that catch abusive nannies mistreating kids while unsuspecting moms and dads are away. They can also catch kids drinking mom and dads booze, doing drugs or whatever while mom and dad can't be there.

They have been enormously successful over the years leading to arrests in some cases and unceremonious discharges for others. The evidence is almost irrefutable.

At the other end of the age spectrum is a hidden spy camera I call "granny cam" to keep an eye on caregivers and domestic help either in a nursing home setting or an in-home care setting. As our population ages more and more kids are faced with housing decisions for their parents.

The choice is simple: an expensive assisted care facility or nursing home or, for those who may be less financially able, in-home care.

Because of the increase in demand for qualified caregivers there is a shortage of good ones which lead to the hiring of poorly trained or unqualified or undocumented help. Getting a picture here? This forces such facilities and especially private parties to make hiring decisions under duress.

It has been reported that nearly 40% of all assisted care/nursing home facilities experience employee abuse of patients. It is impossible to say what the figure is in in-home caregivers because they are often just fired without any further action. In nursing homes and assisted care facilities many of the abuses go unreported too for a variety of reasons.

Because of huge advances in technology there is a new tool that you can use to keep an eye on caregivers or domestic help to prevent abuse, neglect or even theft at nursing homes or especially in your own home. It is a new line of hidden spy cameras with a built in DVR.

These all inclusive spy cameras come packaged in everyday household items such as an alarm clock, boom box, 2 styles of wall clock, a desk lamp, air freshener and more thirteen in all. The cameras work by plugging them in and aiming in the direction you want to record.

All the images are recorded digitally on an 8 GB SD card for easy playback on your computer.

When you need to keep an eye on a caregiver at a nursing home or caregiver and domestic help at your home this is the best way to do it.